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Can anyone reproduce #681227: installation-reports: grub-install tries to install to a nonsense string?!



Hello Steven,

Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> (31/12/2012):
> On 31/12/12 07:56, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > grub-installer:
> 
> 1.84 also carried a fix for #651720 which I hoped could have made RC1,
> but the workaround for #681227 instead means grub-efi, grub-yeeloong and
> kfreebsd-* are broken currently.
> 
> >  - Fix the workaround for #681227 to work with grub-efi and
> >  grub-yeeloong.
> >  - Allow installing GRUB to a character device, as on GNU/kFreeBSD.
> >    #696903
> >  - before or after RC1?
> 
> I'd be grateful for an upload with these fixes from Git even if it does
> not make RC1.

I think I already stated that elsewhere: I want to unbreak the
“installing from USB” usecase, so grub-installer needs some more love
before rc1 anyway.

> I wonder though if the whole thing might end up reverted, if the
> root cause of #696903 can be found.

Did you mean that one instead?
  #681227: installation-reports: grub-install tries to install to a nonsense string

If anyone can reproduce it, I'd love to know how to do that myself!

Mraw,
KiBi.

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